I thought it would be easier to share the google doc that has the outline of what I plan to do in my classroom during my action research study. This document has live links to the activities my students will be doing in my classroom along with any data collection tools and grading rubrics that go along with those activities. Please be advised that this document may change at any moment. Also, any comments, questions, concerns, feedback is welcome via the document or my email: [email protected]
Outline of Research Study
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My Driving Question: How does digital collaboration affect mathematics achievement and engagement among English Language Learners?
I plan to leverage various tech tools to implement my action research study like Remind 101, desmos, google docs and Khan Academy. My plan is to keep the use of these tech tools as organized as possible and let students know when it’s an appropriate time to use each one. My goal to keeping the tools organized is to support my ELLs. They are my main focus and do not want them to be lost in the study. Students are still allowed and free to use them how they wish too. I am choosing these tool because I have used them before in my classroom. I have noticed that ELL's appreciate routine in my classroom. That's why I have chosen these tools as the have used them in my class and I have encouraged them to explore these tools outside of the classroom, but to my understanding they have not used these to their advantages. There has been minimal use of these tools and never has any of these tools been used together. This will be the time where students will be able to fuse these tools together while working on certain tasks. These tools are great because it allows students to put their mathematical thinking and imagination on these tools. I hope that this will enhance and support their mathematical achievement and skills. The data that I will be looking as they use these tech tools is the support in the 4 C’s. I hope to observe creativity in the freedom that I will be giving them using a program like desmos. Since students will be collaborating with partners, their group members and the rest of their classmates, this will provide data on the “engagement” aspect of my driving question. The post-test will provide me data with the “achievement” feature of my driving question. The project that I plan to do during the research study is going to allow students to display the 4 C’s. Possibly some of the 4 C’s will be showcased more than others but I hope that I can measure these throughout the study. If I can measure them that means that they have practiced the 4 C’s. Click on the following link for my research paper: Research Paper
It’s difficult to figure out who are the seminal people in digitally collaborative learning amongst ELL’s because this research is a fairly new topic. I have actually come across various articles on research that has been done across Europe and Asia. Even though here in the United States there is a large population of ELL’s, the English language is such an important language that other countries consider students whore learning the English language as ELL’s and try to apply different strategies sin the classroom to help these student’s English skills. One of the authors of the 3 research articles that I have collected is Deborah L. Lowther, an educator at the University of Memphis. She is known for her extensive work and research in 21st century skills and on how to instill them in the classrooms. She has worked in numerous journals and articles about this topic. One of her highest honors was receiving the Outstanding Research Award from the American Educational Research Association in 2008. This is an idea that is shared among the researchers that I have read about. The 4 C’s was another shared topic among the articles that I have read. One of my articles focused on how students perceived their experience in the classroom going through mobile learning activities and considering the 4 C’s.
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